Archive: sustainability
39 Articles
- Biodiversity
- Food & Water
- Spring 2024
- Sustainability
From the Hilltop to the Field: A Georgetown Professor’s Journey into Sustainable Agriculture
Professor Colette Loll reflects on her experiences running a farm using regenerative agriculture practices, and how she has combined her passion for the humanities and…
July 26, 2024
- Biodiversity
- Janet Mann
- Spring 2024
- Sustainability
Searching for Dolphins in the Potomac River
Professor Janet Mann recounts her efforts to track dolphin populations in the Potomac. …
July 26, 2024
- Biodiversity
- Environmental Justice
- Erin Czelusniak
- Spring 2024
- Sustainability
Eco-Tourism is an Eco-Drain
Erin Czelusniak, (CAS ‘24 ) discusses the problematic impacts of eco-tourism on local communities and conservation. …
July 26, 2024
- Environmental Justice
- Spring 2024
- Sustainability
Green Commons Award Recipient: Georgetown Women’s Center
A review of the outcomes from a Green Commons award to the Georgetown’s Women’s Center for a study on the sustainability of menstrual. …
April 19, 2024
- Biodiversity
- Food & Water
- Max Scheiner
- Spring 2024
The Mega Impact of Microplastics: the Reality of the “Great” Pacific Garbage Patch
Georgetown student, Max Scheiner breaks down the true implications of the Pacific Garbage. …
April 17, 2024
- Cecilia Cassidy
- Food & Water
- Madhura Shembekar
- Shelby Gresch
- Spring 2024
- Sustainability
Revisited: Shelby Gresch, the Force Behind the Hoya Harvest Garden
For our anniversary issue, Common Home checks back in with Shelby Gresch, post-baccalaureate fellow with the Earth Commons responsible for the Hoya Harvest. …
March 30, 2024
- Cecilia Cassidy
- Climate Change
- Spring 2024
- Sustainability
What’s Under Foot: Land, Environment, and Climate Change
Georgetown professor Tim Bartley draws the significant connection between land and climate. …
March 26, 2024
- Cecilia Cassidy
- Food & Water
- Sarah Devermann
- Spring 2024
- Sustainability
Leveraging Technology to Make Smallholder Farming Sustainable
Georgetown alumni shares her work in making technology available for small. …
March 22, 2024
- Alannah Nathan
- Cecelia Cassidy
- Food & Water
- Spring 2024
- Sustainability
MICHELIN Guide’s Green Star Celebrates Sustainability at the World’s Top Restaurants
Common Home editor, Alannah Nathan, examines Michelin Guide’s new Green Star awards and some of its.…
March 20, 2024
- Arts & Culture
- Climate Change
- Elyza Bruce
- Spring 2024
What We’re Reading: “The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth” by Elizabeth Rush
Common Home editor, Elyza Bruce reviews “The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth” by Elizabeth Rush for Common Home series, “What We’re.”…
March 18, 2024